246 THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION
aren’t they Krsna conscious? Mayd-sukhdya bharam udvahato vimtidhan.
These rascals have created a humbug civilization for temporary
happiness.

Maya-sukhaya. Actually this is a fact. We have a humbug civilization.
So many cars are being manufactured every year, and for that purpose so
many roads have to be excavated and prepared. This creates problem
after problem. Therefore it is mayd-sukhaya, illusory happiness, and yet
we are trying to be happy in this way. We are trying to manufacture some
way to be happy, but this only creates other problems.

In your country you have the greatest number of cars, but that does
not solve any problems. You have manufactured cars to help solve the
problems of life, but I have experienced that this also creates more
problems. When my disciple Dayananda wanted to take me to a doctor in
Los Angeles, I had to take the trouble to travel thirty miles before I could

_ even consult the doctor. Once you create cars, then you must travel
thirty or forty miles to meet your friends.

You can fly from New York to Boston in one hour, but it takes even
longer than that just to get to the airport. This situation is called maya-
sukhaya. Mayda means ‘“‘false,”’ ‘‘illusory.’” We are trying to create some
very comfortable situation, but we have created another uncomfortable
situation. This is the way of the material world; if we are not satisfied by
the natural comforts offered by God and nature and we want to create ar-
tificial comforts, then we have to create some discomfort also. Most
people do not know that. They think that they are creating a very
comfortable situation, but actually they are traveling fifty miles to go to
the office to earn a livelihood and fifty miles to come back. Because of
such conditions, Prahlada Maharaja says that these vimuidhdns—these
materialistic persons, these rascals—have created an unnecessary burden
on themselves simply for temporary happiness. Vimtidhadn, maya-sukhaya
bharam udvahato. Therefore, in Vedic civilization, it is recommended
that one free himself from material life, take sannydsa, the renounced
order of life, and prosecute spiritual life with absolutely no anxiety.

If one can execute Krsna consciousness in family life, that is very
good. Bhaktivinoda Thakura was a family man, a magistrate, and still he
executed devotional service so nicely. Dhruva Maharaja and Prahlada
Maharaja were grhasthas, householders, but they trained themselves in
such a way that even as householders they were faced with no interrup-
tion in their service. Therefore, Prahlada Maharaja says, ‘‘I have learned
the art of always remaining in Krsna consciousness.’’ What is that art?
Tvad-virya-gayana-mahamrta-magna-cittah. Simply glorifying the vic-
